Re: ACPI reads wrong temperature

["Peter Mahlknecht" <mali100@gmx.net>]

> > Thanks for the hint. I get the wrong temperatures after loading the 
> > lm90 module (hwmon driver), but also if i load em28xx_cx25843, which 
> > is a part of the driver for my tv-card. Both modules depend on 
> > i2c-core, so probably the bug is related to the i2c bus?
> 
> In the lm90 case it's almost certainly because you have the firmware and 
> Linux trying to access the chip at the same time. Since it has indexed 
> registers, this fails very miserably. I'm surprised that the TV card 
> driver has any effect - it should be on an entirely spearate i2c bus. 
> Are you sure you don't have lm90 loaded in that case?
Yes, I am. I had also a talk with the author of the Tv-card driver and he suggested to but the problem on the lm-sensors ml: http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2008-November/024610.html
We know now that the problem is related to the i2c-i801 driver.

Peter 
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